Word: referred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something many conservatives say, just liberals, and in many ways it is an odd label. It doesn't refer to the fact that his outlook is especially moderate; he is in some respects a Reagan Republican. Nor does it simply refer to the fact that he's a nice guy; he certainly is, but so are a lot of other conservatives and Republican partisans...
...Harvard's Washington insiders have quite as glamorous a job description as Nye, but most can refer more or less casually to encounters with cabinet-level officials. And all of them share the same complaints and comments about life on the Potomac versus life on the Charles...
These cloth shells also have their distinct grace. Several figures of circus performers, riding on iron-wire wheels, refer to Giacometti's famous charioteer and, through that, back to common sources in Etruscan antiquity; the precarious poise of the acrobat's body is part of Abakanowicz's general imagery of human vulnerability and risk...
...recognized the need to set up hospices, but "hospice doctors are considered to be on the margin of medical practice," says Annas. "They are not thought of as real doctors because they don't try to cure people, they just help them die. So many physicians either don't refer patients to hospices or wait until the last week of life before they...
...this luxury may be even worse. We invent for ourselves a false liberalism--one of Foucault and excessively correct speech, not one of the inner city and poverty. We talk about past injustices, not about the ones happening today--ones we allow to continue. We talk about how to refer to female police officers, rather than how to make the police a more effective force. Newspapers write about racial diversity, but rarely talk about economic diversity...